Teleconference will beam Santa from North Pole to children's bedsides, while elves give gifts by proxy

December 17, 2007

What

Christmas will come early for children at the University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital. Since they can't go to malls and department stores to see Santa, Santa--through the mysteries of technology--will come to them.

Through the Cisco Santa Claus Connection, critically ill children can have a face-to-face conversation with Santa via laptop computer. The children stay in bed, pick up a phone, press a button and, presto, talk with Santa while the activity of his North Pole workshop goes on around him. As Santa and the children converse, his technically suave elves will deliver antlers and gifts in person.